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Date:      Mon, 10 May 2004 18:02:06 +0300
From:      Andrey Slusar <vasallia@ukr.net>
To:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc:        Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject:   Re: ports/64796: [NEW PORT] news/leafnode-devel: leafnode, supporting local groups and rnews
Message-ID:  <861xlsiavl.fsf@santinel.home.ua>
In-Reply-To: <m38yg0tlpz.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Mon, 10 May 2004 16:12:24 %2B0200")
References:  <200405101110.i4ABAOHj061297@freefall.freebsd.org> <m38yg0tlpz.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

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Mon, 10 May 2004 16:12:24 +0200, you wrote:

> >  >Submitter-Id:        current-users
> >  >Originator:        Andrey Slusar
> >  >Organization:        Santinel
> >  >Confidential:        no 
> >  >Synopsis:        ports/64796: [NEW PORT] news/leafnode-devel: leafnode,
> >  >supporting local groups and rnews

> I am the upstream maintainer and the news/leafnode port maintainer.
> I have several remarks about this new port.

> SHORT STORY: reject this. Ask again in August.

> LONG STORY:

> * leafnode-2 is an alpha version that is not supposed to be packaged or
>   ported or whatever. This port lacks even the least trace of being an
>   alpha version, it doesn't even have a proper PORTVERSION. It should be
>   called 2.0.0.a20040510a (which is the current version) and have a
>   NOPACKAGE and a NO_LATEST_LINK and a _HUGE_ banner that it is an alpha
>   version, not suitable for production and all that, at the very least.

  Sorry, this licensing is unfortunate for me. I am not maintaining this
port.

--anray



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